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ROBERT LOGAN WICKLIFFE
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
October 29, 1945 – January 22, 1968
Service recordRobert Logan Wickliffe, of Natchez, Mississippi, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 22, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 13
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- October 29, 1945
- Home of record
- Natchez, Mississippi (Adams County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 22, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date January 22, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HS CO 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 13
- RONALD WYATT ADAMSPrivate First Class · January 23, 1968
- JAMES MAYNARD BERGESpecialist Four · January 23, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWARD BLACKMERSpecialist Five · January 23, 1968
- JULIO ALFREDO CALDERONPrivate First Class · January 23, 1968
From Natchez
- JOHNNIE LEE BROWNPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- CALVIN DOUGLAS HALFORDPrivate First Class · September 3, 1966
- CLARENCE EDWARD WASHINGTONPrivate First Class · May 10, 1967
- DAVID E JOHNSONSergeant · June 22, 1967
- EARNEST GLYNN NELSONStaff Sergeant · July 5, 1967
- JAMES JOHNSON JRSpecialist Four · May 21, 1968
- RICHARD DENNIS RANDALLSpecialist Four · December 3, 1968
- JERRY WAYNE LOFTONSpecialist Four · April 14, 1970
- THOMAS WARING BENNETT JRMajor · December 22, 1972
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.